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North Texas Teen Starts Charity for Coworkers, Changes Lives

Daughter of Apple Texas Restaurants CEO launches the Puja Foundation, a non-profit charity offering financial assistance to Applebee’s employees in the event of a crisis.

Puja Dharod is the antithesis of the modern teenager. She has no interest in video games or lounging for hours in front of the TV. Instead, Puja spends her free time volunteering at an assisted living facility or helping with her father’s business. She enjoys hanging out with her parents, adores her older brother, and prefers a round of golf to a trip to the mall. Rebellious she is not. (cont…)